Following the successful conduct of the 2011 general election in most parts of the country, Professor Omo Omoruyi is today a happy man. The former Director General of the Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, spoke to Vanguard last week in Benin City and urged Nigerians to commend President Goodluck Jonathan for the successful polls.

The primary mission after the interview was arranged was to get Chief Olabode George to talk about his life in prison. But the former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would rather prefer to have the story of his prison life told in a memoir, hence his insistence not to tell the story now. The only aspect of it he elected to tell is the one relating to the reason he was jailed for two years for fraud at the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) while he was chairman.

The septuagenarian was a former federal commissioner for information in 1975, commissioner for education, Mid-Western Region 1968-71; commissioner for finance and establishment, Bendel State, 1972-75 and a senator, 1979-83. In this interview, the Kiagbodo born elder statesman bares his mind on the April elections, the PDP, Delta State politics, among other issues.

Chief Reuben Adebayo Fasoranti knew exactly why he was in the Ondo State Government of the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin (1979-83) service.

Mr. Ted Iwere, veteran journalist, lawyer and publisher has seen it all in the nation’s media industry. In this interview with Azu Akanwa, Vanguard Online Editor, he tells the story of his new venture- Best of Business Online. Excerpts: